Need help finding correct Soviet WW II Colors

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This is for a Yak-9K by ICM…the instructions list Humbrol and Testors colors. I don’t use Humbrol and local stores don’t carry it. The Testors equivalents that ICM has printed are suspicious-I don’t think they’re the right colors.

Here are the colors in question:

Humbrol 27 (Testors 1740) “Matt Sea Grey” - for the top of the fuselage and wings (camo pattern)

Humbrol 106 (Testors 1733) “Matt Ocean Grey” - for the top of the fuselage and wings (camo pattern)

Humbrol 28 (Testors 1728) “Camouflage Grey” - for various items

P.S. Perhaps somebody has a link to a website or something that discusses Russian VVS color in WWII and gives Testors equivalents. I’m aware of the White Ensign world-beating Russian colors but I will not import that all the way from UK at a high cost.

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Model Master has some VVS colors… try checking on Squadron. I don’t know what Colors you’d need but I’m sure someone here could help out!

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Here are a couple of sites that should help:

IPMS Stockholm

VVS Research Page

Hope that helps! [tup]

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Try here…[link]http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/[/link]

The nice thing about this site is being able to see multiple builds of the same airplane, but painted in different paint manufacturers’ paints.

MM VVS colors are nice, but most are, at best labelled wrong, and at worst, just wrong, historically

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Here is another reference site, no cross reference for model paints though.

http://www.jpsmodell.de/dc/luft_e.htm#russia

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Thank you all; you’ve done a phenomenal job finding those color chips that I haven’t thought of before. I’m saving the pages with the color chips to my laptop and am going to the hobby store with the laptop. I will be matching the Testors bottles at the store against the chips on the laptop screen. I know this is a crude method but the topic of the real appearance of those colors is highly controversial. The only way to establish that beyond any doubt is an analysis of a real aircraft. However, even if a real Yak-9 could be found the colors have changed beyong recognition due to fading. We’d have to find an aircraft that had been locked up in a black box for the past 50 years with no exposure to sunlight or moisture.